The role of a patient’s primary care physician (PCP) does not always end when a patient is referred to palliative and hospice care. They are still typically reached out to for signatures and paperwork but their role could soon take on more of a significance as helpful guide and touchstone for patients and their families. […]

At one time, the use of intravenous feeding tubes was thought to be beneficial in aiding patients with advanced dementia to stop weight loss, which typically occurs during in later stages of the illness due to loss of appetite or inability to take food orally anymore. However, the use of these feeding tubes has seen […]

Quality of life and end-of-life care are receiving more attention these days then ever before. It’s a popular topic in the news and countless Web sites as more people are looking into end of life options for their parents and loved ones. However, information on it is one thing, but actually talking about it with […]

For most people, it’s not until they reach the end of their lives that they start to come to terms with how they’ve lived or perhaps how they haven’t. Patients in hospice are being forced to face one of the hardest parts of living—dying. As a hospice volunteer, we bear witness to not only a […]

Americans are dying in places that are different from just a few short generations ago. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more Americans aged 85 and older die in nursing homes and those age 65 and older have died at home than at any other time. Nick Stepro of Arcadia Healthcare Solutions […]